Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Things done: 1) Abolition of the "Official spokesman;" 2) withdrawal of U. S. oil lands for conservation; 3) publicity for income tax refunds; 4) a federal farm law and board...
...which he never collected, preferring to hold the court order for payment as a "vindication." In his cell he learned several languages, wrote poetry, was called "Grandpa" by other convicts. In 1923 he was supposed to have speculated by mail in the stock market, plunging on Moon Motors, Ventura Oil. When he left jail last week, he carried with him the sum of $1.60. At the State Farm Pomeroy sulked in the sunshine. He was displeased at ejection from his Charlestown "home." Silent, stolid, unsmiling, he awaited an operation for hernia...
Last week Drug, Inc. announced the acquisition of Bristol-Myers Co. and 3-in-1 Oil Co. The Bristol-Myers addition put several more famed names in the Drug, Inc. family album. There is Sal Hepatica which clears the system promptly. There are Gastrogen Tablets, which relieve in digestion with none of the embarrassments of gas and rumbling. There is Ipana, the tooth paste you should use if you have Pink Tooth Brush. And, by a recent merger, there is Ingram 's, the cool shaving cream. Bristol-Myers showed a 1928 net income of $1,483,159 or with...
...helpful was Mr. Shoup that there is a popular fable that he was a Harriman protege. It was, however, during the Southern Pacific's post-Harriman period that Mr. Shoup really rose to a prominent position, particularly through his management of the railroad's electric traction interurban lines and oil interests. He managed Pacific Oil Co. and Associated Oil Co., Southern Pacific subsidiaries, which later were sold to Standard Oil of California and Tidewater Oil, respectively...
...emerged from art school in 1921. Before the year was out, Queen Mary had visited a London gallery to gaze upon the first oil portrait her eldest son had sat for since childhood. King George called Painter Chandor to him to say it was an excellent likeness. The Prince was so pleased he had Painter Chandor do him again, with arms folded, reflective, in his study at St. James's Palace. Also in 1921, his first year out of art school, Painter Chandor had his portrait of Sir Edward Marshall Hall "on the line" at the Royal Academy...